Floor and Tiles documentation
Interface & Modules
From 1.5.1 the panel is drawn as cards: every group of settings has a picture of what it does, its own help, and the rollouts you never touch can be put away.
Cards
Each group of controls in a rollout is a card with a name and a small picture. Pictures that depend on a value follow it: the dish turns from a bowl to a dome, the share of missing boards fills in as you raise it. The controls are the same ones as before, in the same order, so nothing has to be learnt again.
Help in the card
Click a card's picture and a help window opens beside the panel: what every setting on that card does, in a few lines, with an animation of the setting being changed. The same animations are on these pages. A card without help shows no help mark.
Modules
Most floors use a handful of rollouts. About › Modules… opens a window with every rollout and a line on what it holds; untick the ones you do not use and the panel is shorter.
| Point | What happens |
|---|---|
| Hidden rollouts keep working | Hiding a rollout hides its controls, not its settings: a floor with grout keeps its grout when Grout is hidden. If a hidden rollout is on for the open area, the panel says so, for example Hidden but on here: Damage. |
| Always shown | Pattern and Properties: without them there is no floor. |
| Show all | Brings every rollout back in one click. |
| Saved per user | The choice is yours, not the scene's: it is kept on this machine for every scene and every Max version. |
Classic look
Prefer the rollouts as they were? In the Modules window, Rollout look switches between New view and Classic. Classic is the 1.4 panel, standard Max controls with no cards; every setting is the same and scenes do not change.